GraalVM continues to evolve thanks to valuable feedback, contributions, and real-world experience from the community. The annual GraalVM Community Summit brings together project contributors, partners, and users to discuss the current state of the project, share feedback, and help shape its future direction. This year, it will take place in Zurich, Switzerland, on October 21-22.

This will be the sixth edition of the Summit. Previous editions have brought together representatives from companies such as Alibaba, Amazon, Apple, BellSoft, Broadcom, Google, JetBrains, Microsoft, MicroDoc, Neo4j, Red Hat, SAP, Shopify, TornadoVM, as well as academic institutions and Oracle teams.

This event also has proved valuable for collaboration beyond the GraalVM ecosystem — participants get a chance to talk with framework teams, library maintainers, vendors, and other members of the JVM ecosystem.

Format and Agenda

The Summit is a two-day event with presentations and working group sessions. It will include talks on the GraalVM roadmap, its role in the developer ecosystem, recent and upcoming changes. We will also run unconference-style sessions, where participants propose topics and vote on what they want to discuss. We also welcome community presentations — feel free to email us your proposal.
Some of the topics we plan to cover include:

• How can we further drive community adoption of GraalVM?
• Future directions that would be most valuable for GraalVM users
• How can we further improve developer experience?
• Community and governance
• Your topic → feel free to suggest!

Logistics

Location: Zurich, Switzerland, Oracle Switzerland office

Dates: October 21-22, 2026

The official program will begin on October 21 at 9:00. On October 22, you will be able to leave the same day after 16:00.

How to Participate

To participate, please send an email to graalvm-maintainers_ww_grp@oracle.com, describing your involvement in the project. Please note that due to the limited space, preference will be given to the most active GraalVM contributors and community members. We also welcome organizations using GraalVM in production to share their first-hand experiences and user perspectives.